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PIGS is a software/hardware/percussive framework developed in Max/MSP/Jitter. It's designed for fluid, multi-layered, visual performance. It functions as a performable, improvisable, instrument; as a software framework for developing future instruments and performances; and as a testbed for working out performative concepts. PIGS focuses on experimentation with visuals that are not bound to traditions of rectangular frames and “movie” structures and on creating visual instruments designed as performable instruments rather than as controllable software. In its initial implementation, it enables a performer to perform visuals as they might perform a musical instrument; to be able to improvise; and to create fluid forms rather than rectangular, movie-like images.

Current PIGS performance interfaces include iPads, Leap Motion controller, and silent MIDI drums. Real-time gestures are drawn on the iPads and Leap Motion  and can then replayed with variations by striking the MIDI drums. The PIGS system allows for an assortment of variations from the original gesture in both duration and form with each drum stroke. The performer may also use this functionality to create theme and variations or looping structures. Individual drums/video layers may also be set to auto-loop, allowing the performer to improvise on the other drums/layers against the rhythms of the looping background layers.

While PIGS uses musical instruments and strategies as general models for thinking about performativity and temporal structures, care is taken not to attempt to simply translate musical approaches to visual ones: PIGS is designed from the ground up for visual performance. Rather than approaching audiovisual integration as a matter of synchronization of sound and image, the idea is to create an instrument that is performable as a part in a duet or ensemble (analogous to the way various instruments in an ensemble play different musical parts even though they are performing the same piece.) Likewise, while twentieth-century gesture and drawing-based abstract animators like Len Lye and Walter Ruttmann are progenitors, PIGS is interested in combining abstract drawing with live action, and in integrating contemporary visual influences from cell phone videos and YouTube to CGI, concert light shows and holographs.

The cultural zeitgeist is increasingly one of immediacy and unconstrained expression, while the zeitgeist of digital performance tools is often that of planning, control, and reserve. PIGS is designed for immediacy, to propose and facilitate a match between the ways we create cinema and the zeitgeist of the immediate. And although initially PIGS software is being performed traditional stage/screen concert settings, it’s intended to eventually expand into a variety of contexts.

"Rocket's Red Glare: Things Exploding on YouTube," an audiovisual improvisation by Amy Alexander (visuals (Max/Jitter), percussion) and Curt Miller (clarinet, computer audio (PD)) is the first composition developed using PIGS. 

The visual software is written entirely in Max/Jitter. There are four channels (layers) of visuals, each of which can be controlled by any of various gestural controllers. In slower parts of the performance gestures are drawn continually - in faster, more intense parts, MIDI drums are used to replay the gestures. (The gesture point data is replayed.) Each time a gesture is replayed, it is varied depending on velocity of the drum strokes, sonic spectral data, etc. The variations are spatial, temporal and textural: in other words, faster, more forceful playing might replay the gestures larger, faster, and with more opacity. The videos are both used as both textures on jit.gl.paths and as mattes behind them. A variety of video processing is performed on the videos to allow them to vary between more abstract and more recognizable: this allows us to work with the way videos are used culturally to aestheticize real-world events. Video processing is controlled both by parameters of the gesture/drum stroke and by manual adjustment (Launchpad Mini, Behringer BCR 2000, iPad/Mira.) 

PIGS software lead developer: Amy Alexander. Contributing developers: Wojciech Kosma, Curt Miller. Video Assistant: Doug Rosman.

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Percussive Image Gestural System (PIGS)

Tim Halloran

Learning how to program in Max for Live for the first time, I built a patch that allows me to play my iPad like a cello using the gyro motion control features found in Mira.

Rotating the iPad mimics the action of pulling a bow across the strings, and changing the direction of rotation starts a new note. You can change the volume and expression of each note in real time by pulling the iPad faster or slower. The Max patch sends CC channel data to Ableton Live, where the sound synthesis in controlled.

The best part is that you don't need any musical knowledge to perform with this virtual cello, because CelloPad chooses the notes for you. I built a small probability distribution curve in Max for Live to compose random melodies within predetermined chord progressions. All you have to do is tap the screen to advance to the next chord, and CelloPad writes the melody with every new note.

Thanks to the Max community forum members for an incredibly helpful archive of posts!

Learning how to program in Max for Live for the first time, I built a patch that allows me to play my iPad like a cello using the gyro ... 

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CelloPad

guidoponzini

KUBOtouch is written with MAX for MAX for LIVE and MIRA. 

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KuboTouch - Touch Instrument for M4L + MIRA

Sam Tarakajian

Good news, everyone: Mira 1.1.7 is out. Don't forget to download an updated version of the Mira package for Max, in addition to the new version of the Mira app.

So what's new in Mira 1.1.7? In a word, speed.

With this new version, we wanted to focus on stability and speed. We optimized the interface, which makes the whole application faster and more responsive. Loading a patch takes half as much time as it used to, and switching between patch tabs is faster too.


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Mira 1.1.7 is now available

Georg Hajdu

MaxScore provides standard western music notation in Max/MSP and Ableton Live

MaxScore is a Max Java (mxj) object which accepts messages that can create a musical score, add notes to it, transform the notes, perform, save, and load the score, and export the score to popular formats for professional publishable results.

MaxScore is more than a notation tool. It is an interactive performance object. MaxScore can play back a score and drive your MSP patches through an instrument interface. Scores can be created and modified in real-time and rendered as Jitter matrices. You can add notes explicitly by specifying durations, pitches and dynamic, or use Max to generate an arbitrary stream of musical events and use MaxScore’s Transcriber to notate them automatically.

The MaxScore / LiveScore Editors will give you the power of a notation environment with floating palettes, plugins and graphics with the option to  create traditional or graphical scores and to export them to pdf. 

MaxScore provides standard western music notation in Max/MSP and Ableton Live
MaxScore is a Max Java (mxj) object which accepts messages tha

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MaxScore

andrej

Cycling '74 has recently given us some really nice updates such as the Mira update and the MPE & Blocks implementation. This is my project that implements the updates.

Granurise is a real-time Looper, Sampler and Granular synth which integrates with the outside world trough Ipad Mira, Midi–MPE & OSC.

•	»Human modulation« automation that follows a last gesture until a new one is recorded

•	Edit pitch, volume, pan, eq, density & scrub for each voice

•	Different windowing + design your own

•	Transforms the pitch without altering the speed of sound using the FFT transform

•	Slide can also control the position of each voice

•	Press can control the selection duration

Granurise is a real-time Looper, Sampler and Granular synth which integrates with the outside world trough Ipad Mira, Midi–MPE and OSC.

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GranuRise

F. C. Zuke

The Word That Binds Them is an interactive installation that invites viewers to interact with several famous books. As viewers open the books, voices from inside each book’s pages begin speaking. These voices belong to the books’ authors and those who hold positions of power in promoting each book’s teachings. As the voices resound from the books, they are also panned up and down five suspended speakers, traversing the vertical length of the gallery. 

When the box of fire reaches its apex, a bright amber-colored light illuminates the gallery and pages are printed in real time, raining down from above. These pages contain passages from the texts that contain both “power” and the dictionary term that was submitted by participants (via Mira). Without knowing the source to which each quotation belongs, viewers are left to consider its origin.

Max was used to read sensor data, to control a motorized winch system, to control an electrical relay switch, and to control 17 channels of audio. 

The Word That Binds Them is an interactive installation that invites viewers to interact with several famous books. As viewers open the book

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The Word That Binds Them

By way of the very talented Daito Manabe it’s come to our attention that Mira has been spotted in the wild. It has made its way across the Pacific and into a nonspeaking role in a teaser video released to promote a single by the Japanese pop supergroup Perfume.

Cycling ’74 did not pay for this product placement, but we are thrilled to be associated in some small way with this production. As you can see over Daito's shoulder, Mira was used to control lighting on the set during rehearsal and filming.

The final music video, available here does not feature Mira, but it does have some touchscreen-inspired decor that I suppose reflects back on whatever Mira’s imagined role in the production might have been. Oh, and there’s also an extremely catchy song, if we are to judge from the 1.6 million views as of this writing.


Perfume New Album 「LEVEL3」
2013.10.2 release

Perfume Official Site
http://www.perfume-web.jp/

Perfume NEW ALBUM 「LEVEL3」 (Teaser)

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Mira caught behind the scenes of J-Pop

Julien Bayle

This device uses mira extensions & max for live.

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M4L Analyzer for MIRA / iPad

Mira. It's coming. In fact, if you find yourself in Daejeon on Wednesday the 29th, then you'll be able to play with it in person. I'll be demoing Mira as part of NIME, the 13th international conference for New Interfaces for Musical Expression. Hope to see you there!


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